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@vaporeon_ I really enjoy javascript for scripting tasks because has lexical scoping and functions as first-class objects in a language with a C-like syntax, and unlike Python the lambda syntax is actually fun to write. So I can opt into functional solutions when they make sense, and it still has pretty good abstractions for traditional OOP for when it makes sense

And its surprisingly performant for a scripting language.

✝ this accomplished through JIT engines which have a significant memory footprints and are only practical on modern architectures

@vaporeon_ I wrote my stardew math script in javascripts :clodsire_head:​​:clodsire_tail:

@The_T exactly. some things are just best learned through experience

@vaporeon_ that's more specifically a web development crime than a javascript crime imo

@aescling like, if I gave you one of my thermodynamics textbooks a few weeks ago I'm not going to say that you have no excuse for not knowing what a partition function is. it takes months of dedicated study to read a technical text properly

@aescling this really isn't fair. It's a large book that I have not read in great detail

@lapis if vampires piss do they piss blood? is the blood blue?

they will literally send you to jail for learning concepts in your own weird way that makes sense to you

@aescling my introduction to the unix pipe was from functional programming so I envisioned the data flowing from one command to the next in beautiful sequential purity

@aescling I just knew that you were immediately going to subtoot our real-life conversation before I opened fedi

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